On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Greg Ward wrote:
> On 22 November 2001, Bastian Bense said:
> > I've set up my exim server with mysql but if i try to send mail from a
> > email client it says 'Recipient '....' refused on '192.168.0.206'
> > temporary local failure; please try later'
> > I also checked the logs, but couldnt find anything.
>
> You probably have Exim setup to do receiver verification, and
> 192.168.0.206 doesn't reverse-resolve on your local DNS. (It has to be
> local DNS, since that IP address is reserved for private networks.)
>
Actually, receiver verification is validating the _recipient_ addresses,
not anything to do with reverse DNS lookups for the sender-host.
The actual fix in thix case, is to figure out why our DNS server is not
able to do queries (if this affects sending mail to every/any address
you try), or if it affects only one address, check the domain for that
address - maybe their DNS server is down/broken. And you cant very well
deliver mail to a domain if their DNS is down.
> Easy fix is to turn off receiver verification for your local network,
> eg.
> receiver_verify_hosts = !192.168.0.0/8
>
> or
> receiver_verify_hosts = !192.168.0.0/16
>
> (depending on how big your local network is).
>
> Greg
>
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